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Because use of lower doses of zolpidem will result in lower blood levels for men because next-morning blood levels of zolpidem may be high.

Patients who drive or perform activities that require full alertness the next morning should discuss with their health care professional if the insomnia medicine they are using is right for them.

Since such publicity tends to “stimulate” reporting, this led to the considerable number of reports of zolpidem and impaired driving that were submitted to FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) database. A. FDA has received about 700 reports of zolpidem and “impaired driving ability and/or road traffic accident.” Following a zolpidem label change in 2007, which added information to the Warnings and Precautions section of the label about complex sleep-related behaviors, including sleep-driving (patients getting out of bed while not fully awake and driving), there was a great deal of media attention.

Detoxification from high-dose zolpidem using diazepam

ABSTRACT To report a rare case of physical and psychological addiction to an excessive dose of zolpidem and subsequent completed detoxification using.

In or- der to obtain the amounts of medication he was consuming on a daily basis, he was seeing several physicians in the larger metropolitan area. In ad- dition, several months before his hospital admission, he also received a prescription for lorazepam 1 mg every 8 hours for anxiety, of which he took several tablets a day and, on at least one occasion, he consumed “20 tablets over a period of one weekend.” One month prior to hospitaliza- tion, however, he tapered and discontinued the lorazepam on his own.